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PSC 1.1 Exam Practice With Answers

The document provides 12 word problems involving speed, velocity, and acceleration. It asks the reader to calculate values like speed in miles/hr, acceleration of a car, speed of a rocket or jet plane, time to travel a distance at a given speed, average speed over a trip, time for an object to travel a distance at a given rate, speed from change in distance over time, and acceleration from changes in velocity or speed over time.

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PSC 1.1 Exam Practice With Answers

The document provides 12 word problems involving speed, velocity, and acceleration. It asks the reader to calculate values like speed in miles/hr, acceleration of a car, speed of a rocket or jet plane, time to travel a distance at a given speed, average speed over a trip, time for an object to travel a distance at a given rate, speed from change in distance over time, and acceleration from changes in velocity or speed over time.

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Forces and Motion: Speed, Velocity, and Acceleration

A girl travels 20 miles on her bicycle. The trip takes 2 hours. Express her speed in miles/hr.

A car starts from a stoplight and is traveling with a velocity of 10 m/sec east in 20 seconds. What is the acceleration of
the car?

1. What is the speed of a rocket that travels 9000 meters in 12.12 seconds?

2. What is the speed of a jet plane that travels 528 meters in 4 seconds?

3. How long will your trip take (in hours) if you travel 350 km at an average speed of 80 km/hr

4. How far (in meters) will you travel in 3 minutes running at a rate of 6 m/s?

5. A trip to Cape Canaveral, Florida takes 10 hours. The distance is 816 km. Calculate
the average speed.

6. How many seconds will it take for a satellite to travel 450 km at a rate of 120 m/s?

7. What is the speed of a walking person in m/s if the person travels 1000 m in 20 minutes

8. A ball rolls down a ramp for 15 seconds. If the initial velocity of the ball was 0.8 m/sec and the
final velocity was 7 m/sec, what was the acceleration of the ball ?

9. A meteoroid changed velocity from 1.0 km/s to 1.8 km/s in 0.03 seconds. What is the acceleration of
the meteoroid?

10. A car going 50mph accelerates to pass a truck. Five seconds later the car is going 80mph. Calculate
the acceleration of the car.

11. The space shuttle releases a space telescope into orbit around the earth. The telescope goes from
being stationary to traveling at a speed of 1700 m/s in 25 seconds. What is the acceleration of
the satellite?

12. A ball is rolled at a velocity of 12 m/sec. After 36 seconds, it comes to a stop. What is the
acceleration of the ball?

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